The scene is “secure” after a shooting outside the Pentagon, authorities said Tuesday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1383316
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1383316
Would love to go 2 days without a story like this
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“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
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The title of Michael Moore’s 2003 book "Dude, Where’s My Country?" is exponentially more timely and important now in many more ways.
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Watch for who behaves like Middle Schoolers.
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They just need more magnetometers and bullet proof backpacks, and to run some shooter drills, and it will be fine.
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Aggression is happening in many places.
Video: Fistfight erupts between passengers after flight lands in Austin (expressnews.com)
This is getting ridiculous.
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I’m pinin’ for the before times.
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The 2nd Amendment effectively prohibits such an event from occurring.
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This escalated right after the election. Glad this guy only used a golf club!? https://www.startribune.com/judge-lino-lakes-man-can-t-vote-for-five-years-after-attacking-couple-holding-sign-critical-of-donal/600084289/
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We need more guns in the streets to stop this kind of things from happening.
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Well if you take into account how many TV and radio shows, blogs and web sites are dedicated to keep people outraged, no surprise people are on edge. And it’s not the only the wingnuts sphere that does it, I stopped reading DailyKos and ThinkProgress for the same exact reason, I always seemed to be upset after reading their articles; no need to ruin your life that way.
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Security around these has gotten so much more serious since I was younger. Used to be able to leave the metro and go right up to the mall in the pentagon basement, a few bored guards on the ramp to the building itself. And the local bus used to stop right in front of CIA HQ…
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Only indirectly, and it didn’t have to be this way. It’s the courts’ interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that effectively keeps this going. There is nothing in any of these shooting events that has anything to do with a “well regulated militia.”
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The thing that is more detrimental is the elevation of general anxiety. People are on edge as you said but from an anxiety that is quieter and more corrosive than outrage in my opinion. I suffer from it frequently just being here. And while I disagree with some of the articles in their tone, it is no where near as rampant here as other places. That anxiety puts people into a zone in which outrage and acting out is more hair trigger. It is interesting that you brought DailyKos up. I gave them up many years ago. They changed radically, pun intended, but I found a lot of what was written unactionable. It was there to create a reaction period.
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True, at least the currently popular interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.
However, those of a certain ilk conveniently forget about the 'well regulated militia" part of the Amendment, and they also fight tooth and nail against any effort to ensure proper gun safety training, background checks or waiting periods.
We could do so much better without ‘infringing’ on the right to bear arms.
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Damn, when I first saw this article I do not remember an officer actually being killed. I see it was updated. Jeez.
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Officer who passed away was apparently stabbed.
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The gun promoters are never part of the solution.
And that is succinctly on target.
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